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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Steven Morris

Wiltshire village exhibits Martin Parr’s final photos of scarecrows and prize veg

A scarecrow on a chair by a road that has the body of a human and the head of a horse.
A scarecrow festival held in the area was ideal for Parr, who looked out for unusual shots. Photograph: Martin Parr/Magnum Photos

The images are colourful, characterful and thought-provoking. They capture a flower show, a Women’s Institute meeting, a scarecrow festival. A local vicar features, resplendent in a union jack bowler hat, as does a band of bellringers and a bulldog called Billy.

Four decades after chronicling life in the picture-postcard English village of Lacock in Wiltshire, the photographer Martin Parr returned to document what had changed – and what had not.

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